Re: Early versions of Tesla's coil

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Original poster: "by way of Terry Fritz <teslalist-at-qwest-dot-net>" <Mddeming-at-aol-dot-com>

In a message dated 7/8/03 9:46:20 AM Eastern Daylight Time, 
tesla-at-pupman-dot-com writes:


>By the way, what component do you think the squirrel served? I'm thinking
>it would best be one plate of the capacitor, seeing as it holds a
>respectable amount of water, salts, minerals, etc. Probably would not have
>a positive outcome on the squirrel though. =D


It was definitely not an AC-rated squirrel, possibly electrolytic. ;-)

Matt D.